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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 11:49 am So you never let a sugar cube melt in your mouth?

No.....

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I've run into these kind of videos. I didn't think they were AI generated, just some non english speaking writer using a program to read it with the recognizable "robot" voice. The voice software is getting better but still off a little. The content sounds professional at first, but when y...

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The internet should have already inoculated us all against believing anything we see or read. Should've but apparently not......just look at the state of our politics right now. Left or right, people believe all kinds of crazy stuff that is posted. The tiktok short form video are even worse as ther...

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For testing something I don't fully trust, I use Oracle VirtualBox. You can control if the instance has access to the internet or your PC.

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Frederick_Law wrote: ↑Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:46 am Their cookies go bad fast.

The French aren't exactly known for their cookies. They have Macarons which could qualify as a cookie, but I can't stand those things.....so sweet I feel like my teeth are gonna fall out.

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Yes, thank you, I'm aware of the these things, but my question was 'what is the gain on unlinking the display states from the configurations'? I cannot fathom this subject alone - someone enlighten me, please. UU For large complex assembly, I may only have one configuration. But I need to create di...

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@jcapriotti Are you talking about managing API code or CAD file data? I'm confused as you mention PDM configurations but also systems that are for source control. When we develop and make changes to PDM, we do it in a dev server running a copy of production. We then export the changes to a cex file...

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bnemec wrote: ↑Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:02 pm So you're saying it's ready for marketing pubs?

Are you insulting AI?

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JSculley Thanks for the info, I'm familiar with Gitlab and Github from my gaming side hobby. I had considered those but our global parent is mandating AzureDevOps for all coding. I was more curious about maintain the PDM configurations and issues as there isn't code exactly. Deployment is just PDM ...

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https://www.linkedin.com/advice/3/what-some-challenges-limitations-cadcam-manufacturing-processes?trackingId=hQbOUIuNSDttUKipwQEHvg%3D%3D&updateUrn=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7068637378541723648&trk=fs image.png At least they didn't hide it. The text made me realize something I recall from the Di...

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What's with unlinking the display states from configurations? Are there pros/cons for either method? I have been pondering this and currently on our templates we use configuration-linked display states. Like Dwight mentioned, we do this to create different "views" for multiple exploded vi...

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It's called bait and switch. Happened with TV streaming services and some other software. They give discounts to get you to subscribe, then they start raising the prices. At least with TV it's fairly easy to drop services and move to others. Software almost always locks you in and makes it as painfu...

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I think at most we have maybe 10. We typically unlink the display state from the configuration.

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Do any of you guys have a formal PDM change and release process utilizing tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps? Our company is moving to formalize the process more. Currently we save out PDM configurations and move them over from Dev to Production. But the just use network share folders and Word docum...

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@sngCF What watermark feature are you talking about? There are ways to do it with a note on the sheet format but not a specific function I’m aware of.

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If you make any number of dimensions "equal" to a Global variable, you can change the dimension value from any of the dimensions or the global variable, change one changes all. If you make one dimension equal to another dimension, only the parent dimension can be changed unless you toggle ...

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Is there a way to add the <File Type> column to the Explorer/Search results as a narrow icon column as they are in the Contains and Where Used tabs? I have the <File Type> in the column sets defined in Admin Tool but it's a wide column and making it narrow is useless as all the file types start wit...

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Adrian_V21 wrote: ↑Tue May 23, 2023 4:37 pm I believe it's MongoDB

You're right.....found this article https://www.design-engineering.com/feat ... ng-change/

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I apologize in advance for the thread drift. What is the purpose of a bounding box. I've never needed one in the CAD work I do. (Or maybe I did and didn't know it.) We are looking to do this for our SolidWorks to get the boundaries to transfer into Windchill and into our ERP. Then downstream manufa...

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Raising the price to add cloud services could certainly be unpleasant (I haven't seen how much the price is going up). But they are committing more fully to the cloud based 3DExperience services, which I think will actually end up being pretty good, especially if you time travel to 2025 or later. I...

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Frankly, SolidWorks AKA Dassault Systemes' has never understood the academic model. AutoDesk gave every university who asked as many seats of Inventor as they wanted, with plenty to share with students. My son has an edu license. I'd say they have been following the old way. When I was in school (m...

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If the people kicking off the things that are causing tasks to be created have SOLIDWORKS installed, you are better off skipping tasks altogether. I just have a PDM add-in watching for state changes and then initiate PDF generation on their machine, using the running SW instance or starting one if ...

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SolidKeke Pretty sure this is by design as you have 3 separate tasks and the system is just playing it "safe" by opening and closing each time. Seems redundant being that its 3 similar tasks on the same file but it doesn't know that. We do something similar for our in-house automation, we...

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The executives telling us we need to be back in the office full time to build "synergy" and "comradery", while slowly outsourcing more of the IT/Engineering jobs overseas. May have to post here before long: https://cadforum.net/viewforum.php?f=31

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Good luck. I'm very fortunate to live out in the country, on land I own, and don't have to ask for permission to do pretty much anything I want on it. Same here, the locals don't complain much.....they just graze on grass in my back yard. :D Of course, one of my neighbors "slithered" into...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Wed May 17, 2023 11:34 am That looks like it should be a joke.

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I'm guessing that a walk in printer is out of our budget.

Honey, I shrunk the engineer?

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https://help.solidworks.com/2023/english/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_appearance_hierarchy.htm Each level overrides the one to the right. Assembly Component > Face > Feature > Body > Part image.png Looks the import model code has a bug that doesn't update the internal table that holds the appearances value...

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Thanks, I'm starting to dig through some of those posts to glean information on the plans for transferring everything over. It's really cool of them to disable access without the new solution already in place. Blame the executives, we have this issue internally as well. They select unrealistic date...

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Zhen-Wei Tee wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 10:42 pm sometimes the solidworks appearance is just driving me nuts

only one appearance apply at part level, but it is not showing in graphic

(seem to happen most frequently on part save from assembly, aka Save as Part from assembly)
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Can you attach it here?

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SPerman wrote: ↑Fri May 12, 2023 8:22 am I assume I can make a note and link it to the dimension value. Whatever the suggestion, I'm probably not going to want to do it 15 times.

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Pretty much it, note and link to dimension value. I think the reason you can't rotate it is it's per Ansi standard.

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I can give you a crappy workaround, not sure it's worth it though.

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Ryan-3DS I have no problem with SaaS as there are hosting costs, so your examples aren't an apples to apples comparison. It's when desktop software moves to a subscription only model that I get perturbed. Adobe did this with its tools, Autodesk did the same. They basically took desktop software and...

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Until the current management gets ousted and/or they lose enough customers to affect their bottom line, this sort of mentality will continue. They feel like they need to make "CAD" new again to try and make sales and convert companies. And like PTC salesmen of the past, they likely intend ...

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We call it SolidDoesn'tWork for good reasons. Inventor all the way. We use to say all CAD tools were flaky...I had a few names for them over the years: SolidWorkAround or SolidDoesn'tWork Solid Don't hEdge your bets or SolidWedge Preventor Pro E'nough UGG (Now need a new one for NX) CATIA ( C rappy...

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I've been struggling on this new customer portal, it's definitely half baked and everything is scattered across several different looking and misfunctioning UI's.

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Is there any way to export the splitted lines to DXF too? At present we use @Frederick_Law's solution to be able to export them to DXF. Thanks. Only if tangent lines are shown in the view. You could select the face and "Convert Entities" then put it on whatever layer you want. image.png

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@martin I'll second @SPerman method. Split the faces in the model and show them in a different color. In the drawing you can hatch the face.

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Even if it has to get us out of the way to do it. ;) We seem to be perfectly capable of taking ourselves out. There's a Dilbert quote about our brains not having changed much in the last few 10's of thousands of years, yet we have all this power. Back to logging.....sustainable logging is already d...

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So... i just got a brief pricing comparison between SOLIDWORKS Manage and PTC Windchill recently.... i am really surprise that the price difference is...ALOT (I expect PTC stuff to be expensive...but not that expensive...) ** Yes....quite a difference. Also, Manage licensing is floating so you can ...

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zxys001 wrote: ↑Wed May 03, 2023 4:07 pm Pretty good general assessment.

I sense dueling AIs coming on.

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I have some questions around Solidworks and CAD driven BOMs. First I'm assuming with Solidworks and the PDM system you're able to create a CAD driven BOM, Is this a correct assumption? I'm currently using CREO with Windchill, so forgive my ignorance on Solidworks functionality. Does Solidworks have...

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Hmm....let's see what ChatGPT comes up with:

Human question:

Super smart AI response:

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If I remember correctly, they added the updated holders at one point, but not a way to hide them. They got so many complaints that later, they added a way to hide them. Pretty sure that was as far as they took it. 2001 added the ability to hide them. I think "in-context" was added around ...

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SPerman wrote: ↑Tue May 02, 2023 4:12 pm The link Dan posted above goes back to 2017. This isn't new.

I bet it goes back to the beginning....or at least when they added the ability to reorganize the tree structure easily. The early days you couldn't reorder parts into sub-assy's in the tree.

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Well, I was able to reproduce it by creating an in-context part in an assembly, saved to disk. Then I add a sub-assy and drag the in-context part to the sub-assy and save. Then I close everything and open the sub-assy and delete the part and save. Then reopen top level assembly......got the orphaned...

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@SPerman Are those parts still in the tree somewhere?

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AlexLachance wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:57 am And how many are VAR's or Dassault employees?

I guess after July 1st, it will be 100%. That should get the stock holders excited

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XHawkeye wrote: ↑Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:55 am @Dassault3DS reports that only 3% of @Solidworks users have taken up 3dExperience Works -- a much lower number than I'd've expected, but kind of inline with user disinterest at 3dexperience World events.

How many of that 3% is the makers edition users?

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Like a lot of unreality and dupe'umentary shows, there just isn't enough "story" to fill the time slot for the number of episodes they want to create so we get a lot of filler. I'm guess I'm just longing for the days of a simple 1 hour documentary with little filler and fanfare. Or the day...

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I use Hole Wizard for typical standard size holes, mostly for fastening hardware. And cut extrude holes for everything else. I never use the simple hole...seems like there were limitations at one time...maybe no longer though.

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